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Darwin and the Memory of the Human
When the young Charles Darwin landed on the shores of Tierra del Fuego in 1832, he was overwhelmed: nothing had prepared him for the sight of what he called 'an untamed savage'. …
Detective Fiction and the Rise of Forensic Science
This is a book about the relationship between the development of forensic science in the nineteenth century and the invention of the new literary genre of detective fiction in …
Physiognomy and the Meaning of Expression in Nineteenth-Century Culture
In Physiognomy and the Meaning of Expression in Nineteenth-Century Culture, first published in 2001, Lucy Hartley examines the emergence of physiognomy as a form of popular …
Fashionable Fictions and the Currency of the Nineteenth-Century British Novel
Revealing how a modern notion of fashion helped to transform the novel and its representation of social change and individual and collective life in nineteenth-century Britain, …
Gender, Race, and the Writing of Empire
All of London exploded on the night of May 18, 1900, in the biggest West End party ever seen. The mix of media manipulation, patriotism, and class, race, and gender politics that …
Everyday Words and the Character of Prose in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Everyday Words and the Character of Prose in Nineteenth-Century Britain is an original and innovative study of the stylistic tics of canonical novelists including Austen, Dickens, …
The Art of Uncertainty
The Victorian novel developed unique forms of reasoning under uncertainty-of thinking, judging, and acting in the face of partial knowledge and unclear outcome. George Eliot, …
The Commodification of Identity in Victorian Narrative
In the first half of the nineteenth century autobiography became, for the first time, an explicitly commercial genre. Drawing together quantitative data on the Victorian book …
Gerard Manley Hopkins and the Poetry of Religious Experience
This nuanced yet accessible study is the first to examine the range of religious experience imagined in Hopkins's writing. By exploring the shifting way in which Hopkins imagines …
The Victorian Cult of Shakespeare
In the Victorian era, William Shakespeare's work was often celebrated as a sacred text: a sort of secular English Bible. Even today, Shakespeare remains a uniquely important …